Looking for friends who don't eat "clean" and healthy
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Verity1111 wrote: »need2belean wrote: »carolyn000000 wrote: »If you try to eat perfect and exercise like crazy you set yourself yourself up for failure. Everybody has to take the step that is best for them. I found that sugar makes me hungry and is a trigger food for me. That means I can't eat 2 Hersey's kisses without eating the whole bag! I can, however, eat Buffalo Wild Wings with no problem! My philosophy is eat, pay attention how you feel, record everything, study your results, and don't let anyone tell you what you should or shouldn't do. Now, I am off to go eat some potato chips.
"If you try to eat perfect and exercise like crazy you set yourself yourself up for failure"
I don't believe this is the correct way to say this. I eat a lot of the same things every day but that does not set me up for failure. I also, incorporate those nights of sushi, or froyo, or whatever. Why is eating "healthy" setting yourself up for failure? Healthy is a broad term and I consider myself to eat healthy even when I'm out drinking beer or whatever. I've lost weight this way, and I haven't deprived myself except for that lately, I've chosen food choices over drinking wine every other night like I was. I just chose to not incorporate that into my meal plan. As for exercising, I do agree that exercising too much is bad for you. 2a days aren't really worth it unless you focus more on lifting on those days instead of just straight cardio in my opinion. However, I am still able to workout 5-6 days a week, and until I reach my goal or a life changing event happens, I will continue to get up at 5am and kick my butt.
The person said eat perfect, not healthy.
Exactly what I was going to say.
Me three!
There's nothing wrong with trying to eat "healthy" (whatever that is for the individual), but trying to be "perfect" is what causes a lot of people to give up on their weight loss efforts because they went over their calories or their fat macro or they couldn't resist a chocolate bar and they "JUST CAN'T DO IT so why even bother?".
None of us are perfect, we're just human. If we accept we're going to slip up now and again, it makes life a whole lot easier.
And if we can fit in some of the foods we love AND stay within our goals, so much the better!3 -
Lol....forgot how being a bank teller = yummy treats....2
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Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!5
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!
That's downright healthy compared to mine! Sounds delicious.
We had Frito chili pie with homemade chili
And no, I didn't even try to figure out a way to add a veggie. 4 -
I suppose mine was pretty healthy too. Made a pork loin stir-fry that had broccoli, green beans, snow peas and red bell pepper. Yum!racergirl1991 wrote: »Lol....forgot how being a bank teller = yummy treats....
I can vouch for this as well. There are always treats at my bank. The tellers constantly have dishes of some type of candy on the counter, and someone leaves goodies in the break room every day.
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Yum!! All your guy's dinners sound amazing!
We had "Whatever I can find in the fridge" breakfast burritos. This time they consisted of eggs, ground beef, black beans, corn, mushrooms, and red onions with salsa on top. Yummy. 3 -
Is everybody doing something delicious for Easter brunch/dinner? I'm actually going to my sister's in-laws and have no idea what is going to be served. I'm taking lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake, though, and I can't wait to have a big ol' piece of it. I will log the best I can, but zero care is going to be taken to stay within calories/macros.
Lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake
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Gâteau du Vully will be my contribution to the Easter brunch:
It's a yeast dough base (kinda like a bread dough) baked with a butter/heavy cream/sugar mix on top. Sooooo yummy!
But I have to say... that blueberry cake is making me awfully hungry right now.4 -
Yay, Easter food! I will be making these fresh fruit tarts with pastry cream (I'm cheating and using premade tart shells though): http://www.browneyedbaker.com/fresh-fruit-tart-with-pastry-cream/
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Is everybody doing something delicious for Easter brunch/dinner? I'm actually going to my sister's in-laws and have no idea what is going to be served. I'm taking lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake, though, and I can't wait to have a big ol' piece of it. I will log the best I can, but zero care is going to be taken to stay within calories/macros.
Lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake
I need the recipe for this!! Pretty please?
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quiksylver296 wrote: »Is everybody doing something delicious for Easter brunch/dinner? I'm actually going to my sister's in-laws and have no idea what is going to be served. I'm taking lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake, though, and I can't wait to have a big ol' piece of it. I will log the best I can, but zero care is going to be taken to stay within calories/macros.
Lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake
I need the recipe for this!! Pretty please?
I found it on Pinterest.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/198932508516850390/1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Is everybody doing something delicious for Easter brunch/dinner? I'm actually going to my sister's in-laws and have no idea what is going to be served. I'm taking lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake, though, and I can't wait to have a big ol' piece of it. I will log the best I can, but zero care is going to be taken to stay within calories/macros.
Lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake
I need the recipe for this!! Pretty please?
I found it on Pinterest.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/198932508516850390/
Now there's a rabbit hole I try to avoid at work! lol3 -
I like to have the best of both worlds. Try to be healthy most of the time but gotta have some fun or what is the point, just in moderation you know. I don't eat clean for sure though. I don't have time and my husband eats enough for 4 or 5 people. So I need things I can buy in bulk cheaply and fresh, organic foods ain't it. Also, I hate my cooking and I hate left overs. So for lunch I eat a TV dinner because I need a break from eating my own gross food all the time. And I made desert time a little better, I eat a yogurt that had peanut butter crunchy stuff and little pieces of chocolate in it. But I do try to get fruit and veggies in. I keep away from certain overly processed foods because I have stomach issues. And I don't really eat junk food and fast food only occasionally because of my stomach.1
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Yay, Easter food! I will be making these fresh fruit tarts with pastry cream (I'm cheating and using premade tart shells though): http://www.browneyedbaker.com/fresh-fruit-tart-with-pastry-cream/
We weren't really doing anything super special for Easter but I may have to make this. Yum. Fruit tarts with pastry cream are my favorite dessert, I've recently realized.
You people are always giving me bad ideas - mac and cheese, desserts, new entrees to try....
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megzchica23 wrote: »I like to have the best of both worlds. Try to be healthy most of the time but gotta have some fun or what is the point, just in moderation you know. I don't eat clean for sure though. I don't have time and my husband eats enough for 4 or 5 people. So I need things I can buy in bulk cheaply and fresh, organic foods ain't it. Also, I hate my cooking and I hate left overs. So for lunch I eat a TV dinner because I need a break from eating my own gross food all the time. And I made desert time a little better, I eat a yogurt that had peanut butter crunchy stuff and little pieces of chocolate in it. But I do try to get fruit and veggies in. I keep away from certain overly processed foods because I have stomach issues. And I don't really eat junk food and fast food only occasionally because of my stomach.
Why do you think your own cooking is gross? That makes me sad
Have you tried new recipes, food blogs, cooking shows, etc., or is cooking just not something you're interested in? (It's ok if you're not! I know plenty of people who hate to cook. I'm just not one of them!) 5 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Is everybody doing something delicious for Easter brunch/dinner? I'm actually going to my sister's in-laws and have no idea what is going to be served. I'm taking lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake, though, and I can't wait to have a big ol' piece of it. I will log the best I can, but zero care is going to be taken to stay within calories/macros.
Lemon blueberry cream cheese coffee cake
i'm making sneaky quiches and hosting at my house. potluck style. the quiches are sneaky because they use greek yogurt instead of heavy cream, but they're still delicious and use no holds barred homemade pie crusts and tons of cheese.
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Im making ham with a salted caramel glaze. I heart sweet and savory.
Also of course Mac and cheese.4 -
Quiche = YUM Now I'm hungry2
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kerstenk141 wrote: »:::snarfing down some ice cream:::
Coworker enters office: Um, you still on that whole weight loss thing..?
Me: Actually I'm at maintenance. You gotta try this ice cream.
Coworker: What kind of wizardry diet allows you to eat ice cream?!
Me: I might have a Kat Kat later. Anyways you need something?
Ha that so mirrors the conversation at the latest lunch with my church group. When we were discussing where to go, one lady says to me "are you still doing that 'diet thing'?" <eye roll> I answered sort of harshly this ISNT a "diet thing" but this was a life change i would probably never stop. (Ive got to learn to be nicer about that!)
So at the buffet (their usual choice!) I grabbed one of the divine little brownies with the chocolate sauce with my food (the place is jammed on Sundays and they might be gone later!) and someone else says something like "wow if you can eat THAT on a diet, that must be some diet, i want to be on THAT diet" <facepalm>
Yep i eat dessert every day, whatever fits my calories. I have told them all about counting calories, and CICO, it just all goes in one ear and out the other, they only understand various on again off again fad diets.... smh1 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!
That's downright healthy compared to mine! Sounds delicious.
We had Frito chili pie with homemade chili And no, I didn't even try to figure out a way to add a veggie.
Hmm, frito chili pie. Wouldn't that involve beans? Beans are veggies, right? Well I suppose legumes, but thats a class of vegetables they say. I wouldnt add veggie if I was having chili, well actually I intend to, but usually forget, to grate a little carrot into it, because carrots help with the, erm, music to follow.
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ConnieT1030 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!
That's downright healthy compared to mine! Sounds delicious.
We had Frito chili pie with homemade chili And no, I didn't even try to figure out a way to add a veggie.
Hmm, frito chili pie. Wouldn't that involve beans? Beans are veggies, right? Well I suppose legumes, but thats a class of vegetables they say. I wouldnt add veggie if I was having chili, well actually I intend to, but usually forget, to grate a little carrot into it, because carrots help with the, erm, music to follow.
Now that I think about it, I never have a veggie when I eat chili. There are tomatoes in chili... that's a veggie fruit. Plus, mine usually has onion - that's a veggie.2 -
ConnieT1030 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!
That's downright healthy compared to mine! Sounds delicious.
We had Frito chili pie with homemade chili And no, I didn't even try to figure out a way to add a veggie.
Hmm, frito chili pie. Wouldn't that involve beans? Beans are veggies, right? Well I suppose legumes, but thats a class of vegetables they say. I wouldnt add veggie if I was having chili, well actually I intend to, but usually forget, to grate a little carrot into it, because carrots help with the, erm, music to follow.
You are NOT from Texas are you!? Beans in chili :grumble: There was a minimal amount out tomato involved though. And some onions. 4 -
ConnieT1030 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!
That's downright healthy compared to mine! Sounds delicious.
We had Frito chili pie with homemade chili And no, I didn't even try to figure out a way to add a veggie.
Hmm, frito chili pie. Wouldn't that involve beans? Beans are veggies, right? Well I suppose legumes, but thats a class of vegetables they say. I wouldnt add veggie if I was having chili, well actually I intend to, but usually forget, to grate a little carrot into it, because carrots help with the, erm, music to follow. You are NOT from Texas are you!? Beans in chili :grumble: There was a minimal amount out tomato involved though. And some onions.
Agreed! It ain't true chili if there are beans in it.
My prferred chili recipe includes chuck steak, masa, chocolate and Modelo Negra. No beans. 1 -
ughhh these posts makes me wish I could visit my dad for Easter! Sadly, my boyfriend was traveling so I wouldn't have anyone to watch my dachshund. Longgggg story short - maybe I'll treat myself with blaze pizza or something equally fantastic and delicious... MMM super hungry now, all your food looks amazing!3
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ConnieT1030 wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Dinner is pulled pork, cilantro lime rice, black beans on a bed of spinach. So freaking delicious!
That's downright healthy compared to mine! Sounds delicious.
We had Frito chili pie with homemade chili And no, I didn't even try to figure out a way to add a veggie.
Hmm, frito chili pie. Wouldn't that involve beans? Beans are veggies, right? Well I suppose legumes, but thats a class of vegetables they say. I wouldnt add veggie if I was having chili, well actually I intend to, but usually forget, to grate a little carrot into it, because carrots help with the, erm, music to follow. You are NOT from Texas are you!? Beans in chili :grumble: There was a minimal amount out tomato involved though. And some onions.
I am a vegetarian now, but even before chili without beans just doesn't sound like chili and sounds gross to me! I LOVE beans.1 -
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Verity1111 wrote: »Because it's nice when I can eat junk sometimes and no one will judge me. :P lol
Right here! I stay within my calorie goal. I can't afford to eat 100% clean. Wish I could though. Friend me if you would like. I definitely don't judge.
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Verity1111 wrote: »
And then there are those of us who wonder if salsa is technically fruit salad...7
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